India, May 16 -- Nearly a decade before the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog envisaged private partnership in rural healthcare, a PPP-run hospital in Gujarat's Kutch district has transformed hundreds of lives. The Adani Foundation-run Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences (GAIMS) in Bhuj was ostensibly India's maiden successfully operating PPP model in the healthcare sector.

Over the years, it has contributed in creating confidence which led to rollout plans of six brownfield self-financed medical colleges in Tapi, Dahod, Panchmahals, Banaskantha, Bharuch and Amreli districts by upgrading the government hospitals through PPP. Its healthy ripple effects can now be felt at the national level.

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